“Religious teachings and teachers have conditioned us to think of faith as a magic catalyst that makes God work for us. In no way does faith make God work nor does it release some kind of miracle power. Faith simply tunes into and turns on the divine flow that has always been present” ThinkingWayKindDoeTurnsReligiousTeacherMagicTeachingDivineFlowMiracleReleaseTunesCatalystTeachers And Teaching Author:Eric Butterworth
“When our trials come, when we feel pain and suffering, when our tears flow again, it is our joy and comfort to lift our faces heavenward and to go on, standing on the promises of God.” FeelsGodChristianPainFacesJoySufferingReligiousLordTearsGoes OnComfortPromiseStandingFlowOvercomingDifficultyAdversityChristian InspirationalTrialsMoving ForwardUpliftingLiftsMoving OnHard TimesHardshipTrust In GodPastorEncouragingCommitment To GodOvercoming AdversityConfidence In GodIntimacy With GodWords Of EncouragementCommunion With GodPain And SufferingConnecting With GodWalking With God Author:W. A. Criswell
“To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value, is quite illogical and arbitrary, unless one have already worked out in advance some psycho-physical theory connecting spiritual values in general with determinate sorts of physiological change. Otherwise none of our thoughts and feelings, not even our scientific doctrines, not even our dis -beliefs, could retain any value as revelations of the truth, for every one of them without exception flows from the state of their possessor's body at the time.” MindStatesFeelingsBodySpiritualValuesBeliefReligiousTheoryFlowClaimsDoctrineSuperiorsRevelationsExceptionState Of MindOur ThoughtsConnectingArbitraryPsychoThoughts And FeelingsIllogicalPhysiologicalCausationSpiritual ValuesRefutation Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
“The unconscious is the only available source of religious experience. This in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious is identical with God or is set up in his place. It is simply the medium from which religious experience seems to flow. As to what the further cause of such experience might be, the answer to this lies beyond the range of human knowledge.” HumansSeemsMightLyingCausesReligiousAnswersSourceFlowAvailableMediumsRangeUnconsciousIdenticalHuman KnowledgeReligious Experience Author:Carl Jung